Native American powwow in Richmond to feature dance, drums, contests and gifts

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Dream catchers were on sale at the 5th annual Richmond Native American Powwow held at Nicholl Park in Richmond, Calif., on Saturday, June 21, 2014. The event featured live music and dance performances and contests as well as crafts and food booths. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)

RICHMOND — The community, and especially drummers and dancers, are invited to the all-day, eighth annual Richmond Native American Pow-Wow on Nov. 25 at the Richmond Police Activities League gymnasium, 2200 Macdonald Ave.

The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the “Open Gourd, Grand Entry’ at noon. There will be contests in several dance categories and hand drum, as well as for Pow-Wow Princess, according to an announcement from the Richmond Pow-Wow Committee.

The theme of this year’s powwow is “Honoring our Resiliency.”

There will be arts and crafts vendor booths, where one-of-a-kind gift items for the upcoming holiday season as well as for birthdays, weddings and baby showers will be available, according to the announcement. There also will be informational booths and a Richmond Frybread Food Booth.

Tom Lochner covers Berkeley and occasionally West Contra Costa County for the Bay Area News Group. Tom grew up in Western Europe. He was a translator for a patent law firm and an international bank in Manhattan, then a housing manager in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan, before moving to California to become a journalist.

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